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JOHN J GURRIER AND SAMUEL WELLS, JR., OF4 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS T0 THEMSELVES AND JAMES Il. PLAISTED.

Letters Patent No. 60,484, dated December I8, 1866.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it knownl that we, JOHN J. CURRIER and SAMUEL WELLS, Jr., of Boston, in the eountyof Suffolk, and Commonwealth 0f Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Finishing and Boxing Shirt Collars mpaile of paper, or paper combined with other material; and we` do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference .being had to the annexed drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, the same p arts being marked by the same letters in all the figures, of whih- Figure I is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a. transverse section ofthe rollers, cylinder, and piston.

Figure 3 is a vertical section of the rollers, separated.

Figure 4 is a plane view of a section of the boxing-wheel.

Figure 5 is a plane view of the wheels for turning the rollers and piston.

Figure 6 is a vertical section of the cylinder and piston, and a collar box, which is represented by dotted lines below. i

Figure 7 4is u plane view of the under side of the cam-wheel, 10; and

Figure 8 is a vertical section of the lpulley, 9, showing the mode of keying it to prevent vertical motion.

Our invention consists in anapparatus for pressing andwinding up shirt collars made of paper or paper combined with other material, so contrived as to finish the fold of the collar in the line previously defined, and impart to it the curved form necessary to enable` it to lit round the neck; and in combination therewittra device for putting the finished collar in a box, and supplying an empty box when the first is filled with the required number.

It is not a new process to pass such collars between rollers which press on the fold and finish it, but in so treating collars, bent on a curved line, a ditculty has been experienced-owing to the fullness in the outside v part, in preventing the rollers from running off from `the defined line and folding the collar in the wrong place, and consequently spoiling it. Several contrivances have been resorted to'for overcoming this diiiiculty, but it -is unnecessary to enumerate them.

Our invention is designed to finish collars folded on a eurvedline by Winding them up in a small compass as they escape from the pressure roller. This process takes up the fullness of the outside part and enables the roller to press on the desired line of feld with the necessary pressure. l

'Having wound the collar up, it is in a suitable form to place in a box we therefore so dispose of it by the machine hereinafter described, and the natural elasticity of the material, causes the collar to spring outward towardA the sides of the box.

The machine invented by us is represented in a perspective view in iig. 1.

It consists of a frame, A A, a driving-wheel,1, which carries the wheel, 2, on the'roller, D, and throughthe wheels, 3, on top of the spindle of said roller, D, and wheels 4 and 5, the rollers B and C. The roller B is cylindrical; the rollers 'C and D are conical for a portion of their length g' it is not, however, necessary to our invention to make them conical--they may be4 cylindrical; and we do not claim as our invention the use of conical rollers, or the arrangement of the rollers separate from the whole machine. The guide, O, serves to direct the collar betweenthe rollers, B and DQ The passage-way, E, represented in iig. 2 and fig. 6, conducts the collar to the cylinder, E, in which revolves the piston, F the surface of this piston is covered with rubber, so elastic that it will carry the collar round by friction, and at the Sametime leave space between its surface andthe interior surface of the cylinder for the collar when wound up. This object may be attained `by attachingthe rubber in the shape of projecting points, like those of wheel 8, or by inserting pieces of sheet rubber, or other elastic material, at short intervals. The piston, F, has a cap, F, which should it the cylinder as closely as possible, so as to push the wound-up collar down out of the cylinder. The piston, F, is revolved by its shaft, G, which receives a rotary motion from the wheel, 8, which is loosely keyed on the shaft soas to allow it to move vertically without checking its revolution; The wheel, 8, is prevented from moving vertically by`a key fastened in the frame, as represented in the vertical section of wheel 9, in fig. 8. The wheel' 8 receives motion from the carryingwheel, A"I, and thatfrom the pinion, 6, on the spindle of the roller, B. Theshaft, G,'receives a vertical Idepressing the forked end of said-lever, and by it the ring, I-l, and the shaft, Gr. The cap, F', of the piston, F,

reciprocating motion at xed periods of time, so that after the rollers and piston havel revolved suiliciently to wind up a collar in the cylinder, the shaft shall depress the piston and deposit the collar in the box, as represented in iig. 6; This reciprocating motion is communicated by the forked lever J, the fnlcrum of which is at K, and which has pins on each of its forks that catch into the slots in the ring, The shaft, G, turns freelyr in this ring, but having on each side of the ring pins, I I, is moved verticallyvby the motion of the ring. The

shaft, G, carries the wheel, 9, which has a projection catching in the slot of the shaft like that of wheel 8, as'

represented in iig. 8. Wheel 9 carries the cam-wheel 10, which has on its under side a depression gradually increasing from a to b, as represented in 7. 'When in its revolution the point, I, comesovor the end of the.

rod, M, the end of the rod flies up into the said depression by force of the spring, N, which pulls up the lever, J, and the rod, L, attached to it, and thereby lifts the end of the bell-crank, Q,von which rests the lower end of.

the rod, M. The motion thus given tothe lever,`J, by the spring, N, depresses the shaft, G. As the cam-v wheel, 10, moves on it pushes down the rod, M, by force of the inclinedV plane between a and Said rod, M, in descending moves the bell-crank, Q, which has an arm, R, catching into the teeth of the ratchet-wheel, U,.and pressed against the said wheel by the spring, R. The arm, R, .has a pin, T, and when the wheel, U, is so turned that the projection, V, strikes the arm, R, it throws rthe said arm out so that the pin, T, strikes thelever, S, and moves it. Z is a 'pawl to keep the Wheel, U,Afrom turning the wrong way. W W W are wires with bent endsto hold, a box in which to depositA the finished collar. P is a section of the boxing-wheel. On the rim of it, atE

regular intervals, equal to the distance between the centres of the boxes, are placed .ratchet-wheels.with wires,- tc., one of which has just been described. Such ratchet-wheel will move one tooth each time a collar is placed in the box, which rests on the wires, and if it has ten teeth, when the tenth collar is boxed, theprojection, V, will throw the arm, R, out, vso that as it is moved by the bell-crank, Q, the pin, T, will strike the lever, S, which turning on a fulcrum at S, moves the pawl, S, and the ratchet-wheel, X, one tooth. The-ratchet-wheel, X, is at the centre of the boxing-wheel and carries said wheel round. A movement .of XA one tooth, therefore, carries away the box which has been filled and supplies its place with an empty box. The ratchet-wheel, X, should have as many teeth as there are boxesl on the wheel, which may be as large as is convenient. Y is a pawl lto keep' the wheel, X, from'turning the wrong way.

We do not limit ourselves to these particular devices for moving the wheels U and X, as they may be varied according to the mode of applying power to the'machine. The principle of vthis part of our inventionl consists in an automatic apparatus for removing a box when lled with a certain number of collars and supplying its place with an empty box. As it is not necessary to move the box each time alcollar is placed invit, instead having a ratchet-wheel for each box, one such wheel will answer for all, if it is so arrangedl that when it hascompleted one revolution it will move the lever, S, and bring upAan empty box. It is obvious vto any skillful workman that this can be done by simply placing the wheel, U, beyond the end of the lever, S, and fastening it there permanently, and also placing the arm, R, outside of S, withI the pin, T, on the other side of R. With this arrangement, at each revolution of the wheel, U, the projection, V,vwould throw the arm, R, so that the pinT, would move the lever, S. S3 is a spring'to carry back the lever S after it has been moved by the pin T.

The operation of our m'achine is as follows: We take a shirt collar made of paper, or paper combined with other material, on which the line of fold has been defined add which has been partially folded, and place one end thereof between the rollers, B and C, the inside of the collar against the roller B. The collar is' pressed by said rollers, and carried by them between the guide, O, and the roller, B, till it comesv between the rollers D and B, where the fold'is rmly pressed; it then passes along the passage-way, E', till it reaches the cylinder, E, where,` coming in contact with the elastic surface of the piston, F, it is by the friction of this surface against the interior surface of said cylinder carried round ysaid cylinder and wound up. The cam-wheel 10-then brings the point, b, over the end ofthe rod, M, which enables the helical spring, N, to contract and lift the end of the lever, J,

presses the top of the wound-up collar and forces it down into thel box below. When the cap, Ff, reaches the bottom of said cylinder, E, the collar'is released therefrom, and the natural elasticity of the material of which it is composed causes it to spring outward/toward the circumference of the box, and so leaves space in the centre for another collar to be deposited within it. The contraction of the spring, N, at the same time tha't it moves the lever, J, lifts the rod, L, and by means of said rod the end of the bell-crank, Q; this motion moves back the arm, R, overione tooth ofthe ratchet-wheel, U. As the wheel 10 continues to revolve, the inclined plane of the depression, a presses down the upper end of the rod, M, the lower end of said rod presses the bell-crank, Q, which carries forward the arm, R, and moves the wheel, U, one tooth; the bel1-erank, Q, by this movenient also draws down the rod, L, and byl it the end of the lever, J, expanding at the same time the spring, N. The lever, J, raises the shaft, G, and another collar may be inserted. After the required number of collars to fill a box have passed through the machine, the wheel, U, will have made a revolution, and the projection, V, will pushv out the arm, R, which in its motion forward will catch the lever, S, by the pin, T, and turn the boxingwheel, bringing up an empty box.

The different parts of our machine may be made nearly of the size represented in the drawings, excepting, of course, the section of the boxingwheel marked P.

i What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A machine for finishing and boxing shirt collars made of paper or other-material, consisting of the rollers B, C, and D, cylinder E, piston F, and wheel P, arranged and combined substantially as described.

2. The combination and arrangement of the cylinder E, piston F, .and rollers B, C. and D, substantially as and for the purpose 'speciled j I 3. The wheel P, and the devices for moving .the same, consisting of cam 10, rod M, bell-crank Q, arm R, ratchet-wheels U and X, arm V, lever S, red,L,.and Yspring N,'substantially as described.l

4. Th combination and arrangement of the cylinder E, piston F, and wheel P, said wheel having dvices attached for giving it im intermittent motion, Substantially :Ls described. v

5. The combination and arrangement of the cylinder E, piston F, sha-ft G, lcver'J, ring H, rods L and M, spring N, and com 10, substantially as and for the purpose specified'.

JOHN J. CURRIER, SAMUEL WELLS, JR.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. ELLIS, SAMUEL WELLS. 

